MIXORA CONCEPT
Metacognition
Knowledge, monitoring and regulation of one's own learning and thinking processes.
Metacognition includes judging what you understand, noticing uncertainty, choosing a strategy and checking whether it worked. Confidence is useful only when calibrated against performance.
What “Strong evidence” means
The core definition or effect is well established across authoritative standards, foundational research or a broad research literature. The label does not make every practical prediction certain.
VISUAL EXPLANATION · MARKER BOARDRealizing that you can repeat a definition but cannot produce an example is a metacognitive signal to practice differently.
Thinking a lot about yourself is not automatically accurate monitoring of how you learn or reason.
What evidence shows that I understand this rather than merely recognize it?
A limited system for temporarily holding and manipulating information needed for an ongoing task.
→thought × bridgeCognitive loadThe demand a task places on limited mental processing and working-memory resources.
→thought × bridgeUncertaintyA state in which available information does not determine one outcome, explanation or confidence level with certainty.
→thought × bridgeEvidenceInformation that raises, lowers or otherwise constrains rational confidence in a claim.
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References
Last reviewed
- 01Metacognition and Cognitive MonitoringAcademic source
John H. Flavell · 1979 · American Psychologist
Foundational account of knowledge and monitoring of one's own cognitive processes.
What the source labels mean
- Primary source
- Original work, experiment, standard or historical text.
- Academic source
- Scholarly research or review published for an academic audience.
- Reference source
- An expert standard, encyclopedia or institutional explanation that summarizes a field.
- General reference
- A practical specialist resource useful for application, but not treated as decisive research by itself.